Is it normal to have 7 mental illnesses?
I have noticed people in the mental health community habe various traits of different things.
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shade_ilmaendu
Some people are probably self diagnosing, others are perhaps very unlucky.
There are certain types of mental disorders that are more likely to present together, or present similarly enough that perhaps two different doctors gave two diagnoses to the same person and they, not knowing which to trust believed both.
Tired and failing to remember any specific examples right now - but there are a lot of different reasons something like that would happen.
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I didnt self diagnose. I always knew I had add (it's obvious) but I got diagnosed with a bunch of other things when I was still in high school when I was 22. I am 33 now and what has been labeled as so called "mental illness" dosent really distress me personally but causes me problems with functioning in society.
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Boojum
The psychiatric profession has discovered that diagnosing seven mental illnesses is the most profitable.
If they diagnose only one mental illness, too many patients think they're not all that screwed up and don't see further treatment.
If they diagnose more than seven mental illnesses, too many patients conclude there is no hope for them and immediately commit suicide.
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I'm not even suicidal. I think what the doctors have labeled as mental illness actually makes me more creative and interesting because I see things for what they are.
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redrainbow22
What did say they was a "mental illness"
I feel some things are also made up. Like they just make up mental disorders out of thin air.
You gotta watch these people.
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-Aspergers (High Functioning Autism)
-Schizoaffective - Bipolar Type
-ADHD - Combined Type
-Learning Disorder (Dyslexia & Dysgraphia)
-Personality Disorder (Schizotypal & Antisocial Traits)
-Sleep Apnea with Hypersomnia
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rayb12
Yeah these are all quite common and quite common to be comorbid. Also this is an obvious point but the severity of one disorder could outweigh the presence of multiple. For example severe autism would already carry with it more complications than the ADHD learning disorders and obviously aspbergers. In a sense it could have more to do with how behaviors are defined then what's actually going on. Like autism could be called 10+ disorders but is defined as simply autism
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rayb12
Another area high comorbidity occurs is with mood and personality disorders. Anxiety and depression very frequently occur in some degree across all of them, and some even say if you have one cluster B personality disorder you have bits of all of them in you. I have very mixed feelings about classifications of mental phenomena it general, for me it served only to internalize inferiority victimization fear I was never gonna change and biologically could not because doctors were telling me I "had" them, while I wasn't seeing any benefits of talk therapy or medication. While for others these names help them get the treatment they need, meds, and are able to move past the 'disorder' word and able to see themselves as full normal people despite the wording
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redrainbow22
You have all that?
Alcoholism is not a disorder lol
You can be addicted, but thats it
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Nickvey
people that drink are just self medicating themselves. doctors just hate that.
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I found out because I had been in high school for 7 years and knew something was different about me so I asked to school counselor to be refered to a psychologist. Apparently I was also diagnosed with adhd and developmental delay when I was 5 but my parents never told me.
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Zorak